26 June 2012

Yuliana Lantipo, Jakarta -- Humanitarian Solidarity for Papua (Skup) is
urging the central government to form an independent fact finding team
to conduct a fast and effective investigation to uncover the truth and
who is behind the recent violence in West Papua.

Since June at least nine people have been killed and five wounded as a
result of mysterious shootings. This was conveyed by Skup action
coordinator Alves Fonataba shortly after the group held a demonstration
in front of the Presidential Palace in Central Jakarta on Wednesday June
13.

Yoseph Hary, Yogya -- Responding to the brutal actions by Indonesian
security forces against Papuan civilians, Papuan students in the Central
Java city of Yogyakarta are to hold a peaceful action and long-march
from the Papuan student dormitory on Jl. Kusumanegara No 119 to the zero
kilometer point in the centre of the city this afternoon.

Speaking during preparations at the dormitory, the spokesperson for the
Papua Student Association (PMP) in Yogyakarta, Andi Umagi, said the
theme of the demonstration would be calling on the government to
withdraw Indonesian troops from Papua.

19 June 2012

Direct Action - June 17, 2012James Balowski, Jakarta -- Riots erupted in the West Papuan provincial capital of Jayapura on June 14 after a leading pro-independence activist was shot dead during an arrest reportedly led by members of the Australian-funded counter-terrorism unit Detachment 88.

National police spokesperson Muhammad Taufik said that Mako Tabuni, the secretary-general of the West Papua National Committee (KNPB), was shot dead in the town of Waena, near Jayapura. "He was armed. Police asked him to surrender but he didn't. Police shot at him, hitting his hip and leg. He died on the way to hospital", he told reporters.

17 June 2012

Read: Indonesian Army & PT.Freeport are the sources of violence in Papua

Joint Labour Secretariat Public Statement - June 15, 2012

Friends and comrades, all the people of Indonesia, are you aware of the escalating violence that has been taking place in West Papua over the last few days. Terror, violence and intimidation have become the daily face of life for the Papuan people. Just in May and June, as many as 25 people have been killed and scores injured in "mysterious" shooting incidents.

Instead of paying serious attention to this situation, Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has responded by stating that what is occurring in Papua is only "small-scale with a limited number of casualties". The thousands of lives that have been lost, particularly since West Papua's integration into Indonesia, are belittled by the president as "small-scale". The population of indigenous Papuans continues to shrink. The suffering of the mama-mama (traditional Papuan women traders) and Papuan women that have been raped and lost their children, husbands sisters and family members, is dismissed as "small-scale".

14 June 2012

Puji Utami, Semarang -- Scores of Papuan students from National Papua Solidarity (Nasional Papua Solidaritas, Napas) held a protest action in front of the regional police headquarters (Mapolda) in the Central Java provincial capital of Semarang on Wednesday June 13.

The protesters, who held a long-march along Jl. Pahlawan towards the Mapolda under tight police security, demanded that the government fully resolve the conflict taking place in Papua.

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The honor and respect afforded to star West Papuan athletes playing in Indonesian colours at this year's SEA Games stands in stark contrast to the economic marginalization, discrimination and poverty Papuans face in their own land – home to the giant Freeport gold and copper mine – which saw profits double to $1.4 billion in the 2nd quarter of 2011 alone but contributes a measly 1% of its revenue to local communities whose environment and livelihoods are being decimated by the mine's operations. Kompas - November 16, 2011